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iv ' Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1974 Houston bus drivers walk off job HOUSTON (AP) — City bus drivers walked off their jobs Tues day night in a dispute over pay. A spokesman for the bus company said pickets went up at 8 p.m. at the company’s operational headquar ters. Earlier, both Stanley Gates, pres ident of HouTran, the bus com pany, and M. D. Hendrix, presi dent of Transport Workers Union Local 260, said the strike was inevit able, forcing 70,000 daily riders to seek other transportation. Solar act signed into law The Solar Energy Research De velopment and Demonstration Act of 1974 was signed into law by Pres ident Ford Saturday. Addressing the energy crisis, the new law calls for a comprehensive program to bring solar energy tech nologies to commercial develop ment. “The objective of this latest bill is to bring a number of solar energy technologies into commercial use as soon as possible,’’ said Congress man Olin E. Teague, chairman of the Committee on Science and As tronautics. “It assures government support of the necessary research and de velopment and provides for cooperative ventures with private industry when desirable,” he said. The solar research development and demonstration program will be administered by the Energy Re search and Development Administ ration. The Act also provides for a program of education in science and engineering, the establishment of a Solar Energy Research Institute and a solar energy information data bank. Two million dollars is authorized for a “comprehensive definition,” which will identify the most promis ing technologies and develop the as sociated cost and time require ments. “This will enable us to pur sue to completion the practical and sensible approaches instead of hav ing a vague and general open-ended program,” Teague said. The program definition is scheduled for completion by June 30. Although until the program is completed it is not possible to pro ject total program costs, the Act says the urgency of the nation’s critical energy shortages may require a fed eral investment of $1 billion or more over the next few years. LeMaistre will not give word AUSTIN (AP) — A law professor says University ofTexas Chancellor Charles LeMaistre has refused to promise faculty members at UT- Austin that the school’s next presi dent will be someone who has been approved by a faculty-student committee. LeMaistre fired UT-Austin Pres ident Stephen Spurr in late Sep tember, and the chancellor will be in charge of a presidential search committee appointed by regents Chairman A. G. McNeese. Law Professor Mark Yudof re ported to the Faculty Senate on Monday that LeMaistre would not guarantee that a faculty-student ad visory committee would be asked to endorse the next president. LeMaistre has the power to nominate a president for regent ap proval without consulting anyone. /upTnamb* Si» Eddie Dominguez ’66 Joe Arciniega ’74 Greg Price t If you want the real )thlng, not frozen or canned ... We call It "Mexican Food Supreme." Dallas location: 3071 Northwest Hwy. 352-8570 A final try at talks broke down Monday after both sides were called together by federal mediator E. D. Kincaid. The bus company is owned by the City of Houston but technically the drivers are employes of HouTran, which has a $250,000 yearly con tract to operate the service. While the city meets payroll costs, Gates and HouTran are doing the negotiating. Mayor Fred Hofheinz said Monday he told Gates to “Jealously guard the tax payers’ dollar” by refusing to in crease a contract offer. Bus drivers currently start at $3.70 an hour, jumping to $4.45 an hour after two years. The union has asked for a $1.35 an hour increase over two years. The city offered an 80 cents an hour hike over the same period. Hofheinz said the city estimates it will already lose $1 million operat ing the bus company this year and acceding to the union demands would boost the deficit by $9 million more. The mayor also said granting bus driver demands would discourage city' employes who are prohibited by law from striking. Hendrix said Houston’s bus driver salaries rank 41st in the na tion. Union members voted 659-5 to authorize a strike after the contract ran out Saturday but Hendrix said they delayed calling the work stop page to give riders time to plan al ternative transportation. HAIR REMOVAL SPECIALIST BY ELECTROLYSIS MILLIE LICENSED “30 Years of Experience” I Ini'a 710 Nall Ln. 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